Columbia University, Columbia Business School

Top 10 school

Number of Graduates900

Acceptance Rate22.4%class that entered in 2023

Average GMAT730

Average GRE Quant—

Average GRE Verbal—

Average GPA3.50

Percent Employed at Graduation—of job seekers

Percent Employed after 3 Months90.2%of job seekers

Percent of Jobs Facilitated by School—

Average Salary$173,816base, first year

Average Bonus$41,016

Tuition$84,4962023-24, first year

Columbia CBS: employment by industry, Class of 2025 (chart)

Columbia CBS: employment by function, Class of 2025 (chart)

Data nerd note: The n in these two charts (574) is our estimate. Columbia doesn’t publish how many of its graduates accepted a job, so we built the number from our estimate of its job seekers and its published placement rate.

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